I'm only a noob, but the only lucid dream I've had has been from performing a RC (two days ago), and I was not lucid beforehand. Therefore, most of this post will be from a theoretical standpoint--take it or leave it.
The behavior of people in dreams is usually not the same as it is in real life. Habits, for example, don't seem to carry over unless they are the subject of a dream. You are in an altered state of conciusness, and you are most likely not going to remember to perform a RC all the time. I tried to induct lucid dreams by practicing RCs all the time, and it never worked. I would look at clocks and flip lightswitches constantly, to no avail. Can anyone ever remember doing something like chewing on fingernails, tapping their feet, or performing any other mundane habit in a dream?
I have a hunch that the key lies in the altering of beliefs, which you carry into your drieams, about the accuracy and reality of the world around you. You need to logically accept the possibility that at any moment, there is a good chance you are only dreaming, which is entirely true, and exciting. You logically have no reasonable certainty that you are awake right now, think on this.
What I am trying to do is, anytime I am sitting down somewhere, relxing or doing work, I'll think "How do I know I'm awake?", and then I'll prove this to myself by doing a RC. More importantly, if ANYTHING even remotely strange happens, I immediately do a RC. If someone says something that strikes me as unusual in a converstation, I'll do a RC with a clock or even a lightswitch. In short, the conditioned response to a feeling of weirdness, doubt, or strangeness needs to become doing a reality check, since all these feelings occur to some degree in most dreams.
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